{"id":790611,"date":"2026-07-10T04:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790611\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T04:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:11:09","slug":"victoria-energy-prices-why-a-coal-shortage-caused-wholesale-power-costs-to-spike-to-19000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790611\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria energy prices: Why a coal shortage caused wholesale power costs to spike to $19,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s renewable energy revolution may be premised on the demise of coal power generation, but for now at least, it is reliant upon it. When the wind stops blowing and the sun stops shining, the coal plants keep going.<\/p>\n<p>So on Wednesday night, as prices spiked during an unusually windless evening demand peak, unexpectedly low output from Victoria\u2019s two biggest coal generators had energy experts scratching their heads.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s renewable energy revolution may be premised on the demise of coal power generation, but for now at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-790611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}